Quintus Curtius

The following fragment from Xenophon preserves information provided by Duris of Samos, born about the middle of the fourth century BC, whose Histories covered a period of nearly a century, beginning wth 370 BC.

Quintus Curtius

Book 4, ch. 13, of a History of Alexander the Great written in ten books, c. 40 to 50 AD.

The king himself with his generals and Staff passed around the ranks of the armed men, praying to the Sun and Mithra and the sacred eternal fire to inspire them with courage worthy of their ancient fame and the monuments of their ancestors.